Nice places to eat, drink, and so forth

Where not to eat

Club Quarters is attached to a restaurant called Perc%ento. Do not eat there. The food is mediocre. The prices are expensive. And the service is terrible. Really bad. Really. And rude. We cannot stress enough that you should not patronise the place.

Places to eat near The Hotel

Food

• Wagamama is a Japanese noodle canteen. The food is good, and prices reasonable. Not ideal for an intimate dinner, since it can get crowded and you get seated at one of several long tables, often right next to other diners.
  109 Fleet St

Pubs

• Bell, Book, and Candle is a cute little pub done in a Victorian Hammer horror style. The food is not that great, but the drinks are reasonably priced and the cocktails are good. Plus it is the closest pub to the hotel.
  42 Ludgate Hill, EC4M 7DE
  Open: Mon - Wed 11am-10pm, Thu & Fri 11am-11pm, Sat & Sun 12-5pm.

Places to eat in Central London

Food

• Café Emm in Soho is fairly cheap and best for small parties since they don't take reservations (you might get lucky and get a big table, but it does get crowded, especially on weekends). The food is generic European, with a decent number of vegetarian options. Be warned that it does get a bit loud when it's crowded.
  17 Frith Street, W1D 4RG
• Café España in Soho is a Spanish tapas restaurant. The tapas are tasty and not very expensive, and you can make a good, filling meal of ordering one or two plates per person. There's a few vegetarian options, but most plates include some meat.
  63 Old Compton Street, Soho, W1V 5PN
• Sofra is a chain of Turkish restaurants with many locations including Covent Garden, Mayfair, Oxford St, and Angel. The food is tasty, plentiful, and affordable. You can order your own entree or share a while bunch of little ones. Plenty of meat and vegetarian options to make most people happy.
• The Italian Kitchen in Holborn is a pleasant small Italian restaurant with a nice cozy atmosphere. The food is good with a decent variety of meat and vegetarian options. Be warned that in true European style, if you order, say, chicken, you just get the chicken, no side vegetable, unless you order them explicitly. However, portions are often big enough that the sides are superfluous, and you'd be better off saving room for dessert.
  43 New Oxford Street, WC1A 1BH
  Open: Mon - Sat 12pm - 11pm, Sun 12pm - 10.30pm
• Yo Sushi is the most popular conveyer-belt sushi in London, with many locations including Soho, Farringdon, Waterloo, Angel, and Knightsbridge. Plates are colour-coded by price and range from £1.50 to £4.50. Not the best variety on the conveyer belts, but you can always order directly from the happy-to-serve waitstaff.
• Tokyo Diner in Chinatown is straightforward Japanese food with no gimicks at a reasonable price. The menu does not have a wide selection, but the food is good and the staff friendly. In the true Japanese style, tipping is frowned upon.
  2 Newport Place, London, WC2H 7JP
  Open noon-midnight daily
• Hi Sushi, on the border of Chinatown and Soho is a bit dull upstrais, but the downstairs has traces of late 60's postmodernism in a Japanese style. The set meals let you choose one of several dishes, some of which, if you are not full, they will let you reorder again and again until you can eat no more. Not the largest vegetarian seletion, but none will go hungry. Note that the price varies depending on the day of the week.
  40 Frith St. London, W1V 5TF
• Element Oodle Noodle on the border of Chinatown and Leicester Square has a variety of tasty (surprise suprise) noodle dishes and is extremely veggie friendly.
  16 Lisle Street

Pubs

• The Princess Louise is a pleasant, relatively quiet Victorian-era pub in a grade II listed building. The interior is quite nice and is more or less the same as it was a hundred years ago. Near Holborn tube
  208-209 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7BW
  Open: Mon-Fri 11.00-23.00, Sat 12.00-23.00, Closed Sundays